Hi:

I have been running a mail system with Exim for several years,
using Sophos anti-virus.  I want to replace Sophos with ClamAV
but have run into a problem.

With  the default ClamAV configuration, it reports an email that
is both a phishing attempt and also contains a virus, as just a
Phishing attempt.  With the particular message I encountered,
with phishing detection turned on in the config I get:

  HTML.Phishing.Pay-19 FOUND

and with it turned off, I get:

  VBS.Dropper.Small FOUND

I had planned to just tag phishing attempts and deliver them to
the user anyway, in case of false positives, unlike actual
viruses that I would delete.  And I would tell the difference by
checking the 'virus' name for the text 'Phishing'.  But it seems
this strategy could result in passing viruses to my users which
I would like to avoid.

Is there some way to make ClamAV report the more serious condition
when there is more than one problem with a message?  I assume that
a virus is generally considered more serious than a phishing
attempt.  Or do I need to run two copies of clamd, one with
phishing detection configured on and one with it off, and scan
everything twice, in order to detect this type of message?
And is it even possible to run two copies of clamd simultaneously?

I have checked the archives, and I understand there has been some
discussion of phishing as spam vs. virus, but I didn't see anything
about this issue.  I hope somebody can shed some light for me.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Russ

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University of Lethbridge              FAX:     (403) 382-7108
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